Word: columnist
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...This doctrine] leaves the country without the means to assure responsible self-government in certain contingencies," Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. pointed out last week. "There are any number of activities, not formally proscribed by the law, which a President could legally undertake at indescribable cost to the Republic." Buckley imagined a number of fanciful actions for which a President should be indicted, such as commuting the sentences of all federal prisoners or taking a six-month vacation. Notwithstanding such reductio ad absurdum, Buckley says, the principle remains: "Congress has got to retain the right to pass judgment on gross...
While testifying before the Ervin committee last summer, Jeb Stuart Magruder mentioned that the Committee for the Re-Election of the President had paid $20,000 to Author-Columnist Victor Lasky in 1972. Amid the Watergate quakes, this disclosure hardly caused a tremor, but it did rattle Lauren Soth, editorial-page editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. He alerted the National Conference of Editorial Writers that the 100 papers subscribing to Lasky's weekly column (syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance) had been uninformed about Lasky's financial connection with C.R.P...
...N.C.E.W. decided that Lasky had "abused his position as an editorial-page columnist" and that his syndicate was culpable for condoning the arrangement once it became known. The National News Council,- asked to look into the case by the editors' group, upheld both charges on June 25. But Lasky, 56, a pugnacious conservative and veteran Kennedy baiter (JFK: The Man and the Myth), is not taking the News Council verdict passively. "I get a total of $30 a week from North American for my column," he fumes. "For that I should go on welfare." Lasky explains that Republican friends...
...catch the new wave in the market, he has seen revenues grow by more than 40% a year since 1966 (last year's total: $20 million). One of his innovations has been to hire noted experts in other fields (Henry Kissinger, Bill Moyers [see below], Economist Otto Eckstein, Columnist David Broder) to relate politics, foreign affairs and economics to investments...
...Angeles during President Nixon's 1972 campaign, and was named state Republican national committeeman in May 1973. Offered financial support for a gubernatorial campaign this year, he surveyed the crowded field and declined. Instead, he increased his political visibility as host of a local TV talk show and columnist for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner...